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Welcome to the future: Researchers develop stretchable, self-healing liquid-metal wires

Welcome to the future: Researchers develop stretchable, self-healing liquid-metal wires

January 24, 2013

Welcome to the future: Researchers develop stretchable, self-healing liquid-metal wires, The Next Web, Overclockers Club et al, Jan. 24, 2013. Utilising liquid metal and special polymers, NC State researchers have discovered a way to create wires that can be stretched, severed or completely cut and repair themselves. Michael Dickey, chemical and biomolecular engineering, featured.

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